Developing Community Disaster Resilience in the Lembang Fault Area, Indonesia: Lessons Learned from Japanese Experience

Rizqi Abdulharis,Irwan Meilano,Chikako Isouchi,Alfita Puspa Handayani

doi:10.3390/app12031271

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Abstract

Having experienced large-scale disasters between 2004 and 2006, the fatalities due to large-scale disasters in 2018 in Indonesia were still high. In contrast, community disaster resilience (CDR) and disaster risk management (DRM) in Japan have been continuously improved. Thus, there is a need to develop CDR for supporting DRM in Indonesia by learning from the Japanese experience, particularly in a disaster-prone area without large-scale disaster experience. This research was a pilot project on the development of CDR in Indonesia. The case study was Lembang Fault area, which is a geologic hazard-prone area. People’s perception was collected using structured interviews, while demographic and local economic data were acquired from official statistical publications. Satellite images were utilized to acquire the imageries of natural and built environment, as well as land use/land cover and its changes, between 2019 and 2021. Based on CDR assessment in the Lembang Fault area, the levels of people’s participation and capacity on DRM were low. This may be caused by the low level of training and education, linking of social capital and past disaster experience, as well as the inability of the people to interpret the symbols in indigenous knowledge. Moreover, government interventions on DRM and land administration are required to develop CDR in the Lembang Fault area. Organized community development is expected rather than to solely involve universities and NGOs. Furthermore, strategies to develop economic resilience are needed to allow the community to bounce back from future disaster. Finally, baseline data should be collected and managed to develop DRM strategy and CDR.

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Community disaster resilience (CDR) has been defined differently based on various points of view of researchers, namely an ongoing process of adaptation, the absence of negative effects, the presence of a range of positive attributes, or a mixture of the mentioned types of definition [1]
The analysis of community disaster resilience (CDR) unit was the central part of the Lembang Fault area, which comprises of four districts in the districts of Parongpong, Cisarua, and Lembang of the municipality of Western Bandung, as well as the district of Sukasari of the municipality of the city of Bandung
To obtain a deeper understanding concerning people’s perception in the scope of other subcategories of CDR, face-to-face structured interviews were conducted with 108 heads of families living in 16 villages within four districts of the Lembang Fault area

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Community disaster resilience (CDR) has been defined differently based on various points of view of researchers, namely an ongoing process of adaptation, the absence of negative effects, the presence of a range of positive attributes, or a mixture of the mentioned types of definition [1]. The second type of definition deals with the expected outcome of keeping functioning [1]. This includes psychological and physical functioning for the individual level [1,4,6], as well as evidence on the capability of an organization to contend with uncertainty [1,7]. The third type of definition describes positive attributes of a CDR [1] Those attributes are responsiveness and the existence of collective action of local support [1,8]; community’s capacities, skills, and knowledge [1,4]; and household relationships, the level of education and literacy, employment-seeking behaviors, social support networks, the ability to seek support services, a sense of communal safety and hope, and physical security measures [1,9]

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